This is really sad news, putting astro science on hold for 4 years straight.
Even non-MAGAs probably remember Trump as being heavily pro-NASA last time around, but all he wanted then was a splashy moon landing mission to recapture the PR magic of the 1960s space race. When it came to science that wouldn’t dazzle his fans, he was the same as he is now.
You see gene stealer cultist goal is to weaken a planet for the star gods. Also they don’t want anyone to see them come. Cause if you see nids coming everyone is going to arm up.
Focussing on looking inwards perhaps?
Bahahahahahhaaaaa!
Gonna need microscopes for that
In walks SpaceX I presume. Or he’ll make TelescopeX
TeleGrok
No need to see anything when you can just generate random bullshit.
“keeping his promise to restore America’s proud legacy of leadership in space”
Of course they are
Now we lost the space information and science race. Now, there won’t be sharing globally about scientific space breakthroughs. Now, those countries that do make those breakthroughs will sell us the information once it’s no longer relevant.
The only thing in life that I’m actually really passionate about… Cool stuff.
This administration finds new ways for me to wish for their death every day.
I work on one of these telescopes. Got the news today thay they’re trying to close Goddard, and the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, and basically all Earth observing satellite work. It would completely upend our ability to predict 7 day weather, extreme weather events like hurricanes, and make science basically inaccessible from space. I’m surprised they aren’t moving the funding over to SpaceX entirely.
less funding for you = more subsidies for Felon Musk.
This is awful. I’m so sorry.
The anti science and intellectualism attacks has gotten worse. And stem was already teetering into abyss before, in terms of funding and stem majors finding jobs
It’s fucking heartbreaking to see, as an astronomy and astrophysics enthusiast.
At the same time, I hope that the loss in weather prediction capabilities leads to catastrophic damage to Mar a Lago and as many other of his properties as possible. And I admit that there’s a part of me that’s quite gleeful at the prospect of the maga-leaning parts of the country getting absolutely fucked by unexpected weather phenomena that will escalate in frequency and severity. Maybe it’ll render a bunch of those voters… unable to vote going forward, if you get my drift.
Some of them already think weather is a Democrat conspiracy .
It’d be both amazing and unsurprising to watch them not connect the cause-and-effect here.
It’s truly incredible how many times that cult can blow off its own feet and refuse to take accountability for it.
Aren’t they already getting fucked, their were quite a few storms that devastated the south recently, but MSM refuses to cover then
It really sucks. I legit feel like I might get kicked out of the space industry bcz of the dumbass administration. I will end up in the private sector making rockets for space tourism, which isn’t inspiring at all bcz, let’s face it. Going into space and being a billionaire isn’t all that special. But doing science for humankind, that’s something to aspire too, and they’re trying to take that away from us.
It was pure cringe how all these rich people just got back from space, like they think it’s an achievement, it’s nothing more than a rich person going to Everest . Shatner was quite disappointed
For whatever it’s worth, I am quite sad that people like you are having their career motivations crushed by this idiocy. I wish I could help or move the needle in some way, because I think space exploration and pure science is fucking rad, but nobody gives a shit what engineers think anymore. They just plug us in to solve the problem just enough so that it’s an MVP and then don’t let us address any of the fucking tech debt. And I’m probably going off on a tangent here, but whatever. It’s Friday and I’m 4 beers deep.
We’re aiming for the biggest protest in us history (yet) on the 19th.
Space can be part of it too.
There’s so much more to the private sector than tourism rockets! Consider:
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Cheap components that don’t work
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Cheap satellites that don’t work
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Cheap lunar landers that don’t work
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Pump-and-dump get-rich-quick schemes
Man, I can’t wait to work on that stuff. It sounds inspiring.
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That’s the whole point of SpaceX. Why have a space program when we can funnel endless money to a grifter?
You can’t fix stupid. 🤦🏻♂️
I don’t think stupidity is the driver here. This is all very deliberate.
Yeah, the Christ fanatics hate science and find science to be their bitter enemy, essentially
Yes, you can. With a shotgun.
who needs science when you make your own truth?
How did I have bad luck enough to end up in the stupidest timeline?
They shot that fucking gorilla. That is how.
No, it was Bowie
Man, I didn’t even know David Bowie was in Ohio that day, let alone the same zoo!
F
Save the gorilla. Save the world.
Maybe that implies it’s the only timeline in which you exist.
so it’s their fault
It could also be the only timeline you’re in to tell me that. 🤷
JWST, being an Infrared telescope, is the successor to Spitzer.
Nancy Grace Roman, being an optical telescope, is the successor to Hubble.
Infrared telescopes have fundamentally worse resolution than their optical counterparts. The difference in image quality is so great that most people haven’t even heard of Spitzer compared to Hubble. Now imagine the step up from Webb to Roman.
No, sorry. Roman is a Hubble-class telescope with a wide field of view. It will do much more imaging than Hubble, but with about the same quality.
Figures. The fucking cunt has orders to follow.
